Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages, Volumul 1T. Egerton, 1814 |
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Pagina vi
... never been diminished ; it still stands unri- valled , and has been the medium through which the greater part of the adages have been introduced into almost every country in Europe . But though they have by this means been introduced ...
... never been diminished ; it still stands unri- valled , and has been the medium through which the greater part of the adages have been introduced into almost every country in Europe . But though they have by this means been introduced ...
Pagina ix
... never obtain from them such preferment , as would make him independent . It must be confessed , as he intimates in one of his letters to his friend Barbirius , that he was of too open a dispo- sition , and apt to give offence by ...
... never obtain from them such preferment , as would make him independent . It must be confessed , as he intimates in one of his letters to his friend Barbirius , that he was of too open a dispo- sition , and apt to give offence by ...
Pagina xv
... to the chariot of aliens , and I doubt , I must say , of enemies to the country . Had such a scene been acted at Greece or Rome , the parties . would would never again have been acknowledged as citizens ; they PREFACE . XY.
... to the chariot of aliens , and I doubt , I must say , of enemies to the country . Had such a scene been acted at Greece or Rome , the parties . would would never again have been acknowledged as citizens ; they PREFACE . XY.
Pagina xvi
would never again have been acknowledged as citizens ; they would have been banished , perhaps sold as slaves , or even forfeited their lives . Thus far I have endeavoured to shew the reader what he is to expect in these volumes ; it ...
would never again have been acknowledged as citizens ; they would have been banished , perhaps sold as slaves , or even forfeited their lives . Thus far I have endeavoured to shew the reader what he is to expect in these volumes ; it ...
Pagina 39
... never was poet , or orator , Cicero says , who thought any other superior to himself in his art , nor any lover who did not find more beauty in his mistress than in any other woman . Patria Fumus Igni alieno luculentior . Even the smoke ...
... never was poet , or orator , Cicero says , who thought any other superior to himself in his art , nor any lover who did not find more beauty in his mistress than in any other woman . Patria Fumus Igni alieno luculentior . Even the smoke ...
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Pagina 281 - Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Pagina 191 - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Pagina 275 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Pagina 191 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pagina 41 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease...
Pagina 279 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below...
Pagina 71 - STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Pagina 279 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Pagina 144 - It happened at Athens, during a public representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth, that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to his age and quality. Many of the young gentlemen who observed the difficulty and confusion he was in, made signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sat.
Pagina 35 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.